The Bloody Decade was the most turbulent and unbearable period in Dragon City's history after its transmigration, a time too painful to look back on.
When most people recalled the stirring, magnificent journey of the past half-century, they tacitly—even unconsciously—glossed over this chapter of history.
As for how Dragon City emerged from the Bloody Decade, they often dismissed it with an overly simple explanation: "With the completion of Superhuman Tower, the unremitting efforts of the Survival Committee, and the Transcendents' sacrifices one after another, Dragon City finally welcomed long-lost peace and order."
The former Meng Chao, like the vast majority of ordinary citizens, had firmly believed this straightforward tale of clear-cut good and evil.
But as his realm gradually rose, granting him access to the upper-middle levels of Superhuman Tower and vast amounts of closely guarded information, and as he entered the inner halls to become the True Disciple of the firsthand witness, the "Martial God" Lei Zongchao, his childish and laughable old notions were gradually replaced by truths where good and evil could not be distinguished, murky and unclear.
Survival had never been easy.
So-called justice, morality, and law were neither prerequisites for survival nor necessities of it.
"It seems you understand very well the important role the Blood Alliance played in Dragon City's history."
Lü Zhongqi continued, "Though the official narrative says, 'With the construction of Superhuman Tower, Dragon City gradually restored order,' you and I both know that is merely a lie to fool petty commoners and ignorant men and women.
"Superhuman Tower, soaring straight into the clouds, surpassed even Earth's largest standalone structures in both height and scale. Neither its technological demands nor its engineering workload could have been accomplished by an apocalypse city still struggling amid chaos and disorder.
"To build Superhuman Tower, there first